If so, MTV wants to hear from you. The network has put out a casting call for an episode of its documentary series, True Life:

Have video games totally taken over your life? Is your game play increasingly getting out of control? Have your friends or family confronted you about your gaming habit? How about your marriage or personal relationships – are they being affected?

Is it difficult to balance work and gaming time? Do you sometimes skip doing homework or household responsibilities to play? Have you played video games as a way of escaping your problems? Has your game playing habit become so encompassing that you may need to go to rehab to kick it?

Does this sound like you? God, we hope not but if it does, send your info MTV’s way and maybe we’ll see you on the tube. That is, if you can bear to pull yourself away from Ghostbusters: The Video Game for a few minutes.

I just snooped around the web abit for more info on this. This show had 9 seasons so far? Yikes!

Anyway, apparnetly this was not the first time they covered games. There's an episode from 2003 called "I'm a gamer" which covers video games. I even found the episode available (and apparnetly Reproduced with Permission) here: http://www.quakeunity.com/file=1528

Hmm. Well, I've been told by two others, in the past, that I had a video game addiction. One believes I've gotten over it, and the other I've convinced that I never did have one. And I'll admit that I used to play WoW to the point where it cut heavily into the time I needed to be working on homework.

However, I'd say that wasn't really an addiction. It was a period of time where I really didn't enjoy my life, and so video games kind of took precedence simply through the fact they were probably the only thing I enjoyed. Which to me seems more like a bout of severe depression, rather than a true addiction.

Which raises the question: How many people play games to escape? Pretty much all of them, right? So should we really be surprised when people play games a lot when their lives really suck? I think people are messing up cause and effect here: It's not that I play games, therefore I neglect my life, therefore my life winds up sucking. It's that my life sucked, therefore I wanted to escape, therefore I played games.

And that latter version is hardly something unique to games. TV, movies, even books... they all promote the sort of escapist tendencies that, to an uninformed outsider, can look remarkably like addiction.

Also, they all exhibit the trait that *if* you use them to excess due to a lack of self-control, they can cause harm to your life. However, I'd say the trick is that, unlike an addiction, these can be self-corrected. Or corrected by a slight change of the environment.

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Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known

They both claim to show certain types of media, but that media hardly if ever plays. MTV used to be about music, now it's 90% reality shows and re-runs of reality shows.. G4 used ot be for gamers, now it too is 90% reality shows or re-runs of old reality shows.

Since there are no real game addicts, good luck. Games are just their release for other problems they have. Of course that is the same for other addictions as well, like addiction to pornography. Yes, there is a chemical reaction reward at the end, but the addiction is the effect, not the cause.

Games are addictive just like addiction is a disease, anyone who believes addiction is a disease... well they are stupid and need to look in the dictionary of what a disease really is, what addiction is, and learn more about psychology and biology on why they are not even close to the same.

I know you're kidding, but marriage is about things other than sex. The long and the short of it is my parents babysit my daughter when I'm at work.

Plus, I ask her to go on the couch to play wow so I can sleep on the bed, she tells me to sleep on the couch! No respect I tell ya! My daughter complains when I try to get her to eat vegetables, she says her momma doesn't make her eat things she doesn't like. I tells her that's because her momma is never cooking! No respect, I can't get no respect.

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Monte: Though from a business side, i would agree with the article. While it would be smarter for developers to slow down, you can't expect EA, Activision or ubisoft to do something like that. Nintnedo's gotta get the third party back.02/28/2015 - 4:36pm

Monte: Though it does also help that nintendo's more colorful style is a lot less reliant on graphics than more realistic games. Wind Waker is over 10 years old and still looks good for its age.02/28/2015 - 4:33pm

Monte: With the Wii, nintnedo had the right idea. Hold back on shiny graphics and focus on the gameplay experience. Unfortunatly everyone else keeps pushing for newer graphics and it matters less and less each generation. I can barely notice the difference02/28/2015 - 4:29pm

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Matthew Wilson: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/02/28/the-world-is-nintendos-if-only-theyd-take-it/ I think this is a interesting op-ed, but yeah it kind of is stating the obvious.02/28/2015 - 2:52pm